Beehive



PATENT JOHN F. WESSEL, OF KLLOGG, IOVA.

BEEHIVE'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 608,943,2dated August 9, 18298. Application filed July 6, 1897. Serial No. 643,658. (No modeld To all whoml it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOI-IN F. WESSEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kellogg, in the county of Jasper and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Beehive, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to facilitate the handling and.

management of bees in a hive; and my in- .vention consists in the arrangement and combination ofparts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Y Figure l is a transverse sectional view showing the construction of the parallel side Walls, the removable cover or top of the hive, the sectional honey-board, and the removable partition. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view showing the positions of the adjustable and removable parts relative to each other and the permanently-fixed por tions of the hive. Fig. 3 is a top view of one of the movable frames having fixed staples for preserving uniform open spaces between the frames. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the manner in which sections of the honey board are hinged to the tops of the parallel side walls of the hive.

The letter A designates the bottom, and B and B2 the parallel side walls of the hive fixed to the bottom. C (shown in Fig. 2) is the front of the hive fixed to the bottom and parallel sides.

D and D2 are inside walls fitted and flXed to the parallel sides B and `B2 and rabbeted at their inner top edges to allow the ends of` the tops of the movable frames and projections at the-top corners of the movable partition to rest and slide thereon. These inside parts of the walls project above the outer partitions, upon which outer portions are Xed beveled strips f to carry oft water and aid in maintaining the complete Walls dry.

II is the removable rear end wall. Itis detachably fastened by means of turn-butf tons K, pivoted to the ends of the parallel side walls. A series of movable frames m are supported upon the rabbeted top edges of the inner side Walls D and D2 .and kept at regu-` lar distances apart by means of the staples fn, fixed in their side edges and end portions, as shown in Fig. 3.

P is a movable partition consisting of a wooden frame, in which is fitted and fixed a glass, so that the main portion of the partition is transparent. Projections r at the top corners of theframes rest and slide upon the rabbeted top edges of the parallelinner side Walls Drand D2, so that the partition can be readily adjusted relative to the number of movable frames m in the hive, and, as required, to make asmall or large kbrood-chamber. 'Rings are attached to the wooden portion of the partition to facilitate moving it.

s and s are sections of ahoney-board hinged to the top edges of the parallel inner Vwalls D and D2 in sucha manner that they can be turned inward, as shown in Fig. 1, and outward when the top A2 of the hive is removed. The inner edges of the hinged sections are beveled and adapted to overlie a removable and sliding central sectionsl of ,the honeyboard that has beveled edges at its sides, as required, in combination with the hinged sections,to close the top of the chamber that contains the movable frames fm. This central section is shorter than the hinged sections, and consequently it can be placed in position, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to allow an opening at its front end for the passage of bees when it is desirable to let them into the chamber in the removable top A2 of the hive to 4fill honey-boxes-that may be placed on top of the honey-board, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1." An opening at the front and bottom'of the' hive allows bees to go in and out.

A Empty frames may be advantageously kept in the closed chamber outside of the partition P, as indicated by. dotted lines in Fig. 2, when the brood-chamber on the other side of the partition is reduced in size to the advantage ofa weak or smallswarm of bees.

From the foregoing description and functionof the different adjustable parts and the manner 4of operating them to "facilitate the management of beesA the `-utility and advantages of my invention will be readily understood by persons familiar with the artofbeekeeping;

1. In a beehive, the parallel'walls having rabbets at their inner top edges, movable comb-frames supported by rabbeted Walls IOO and sections of a honey-board hinged to the said walls and a movable honey-board seotion fitted between the hinged sections, arranged and combined as and for the purposes stated.

2. An improved beehive comprising two parallel walls having rabbets at their top edges, sections of a honey-board hinged to the tops of said walls, a front wall having a 1o bee-passage, a movable rear wall, a movable partition, movable frames, a removable section of a honey-board fitted between the said hinged sections and a removable top, arranged and combined as and for the purposes stated.

JOHN F. WESSEL.

Witnesses:

E. C. OGG, A. R. VAN GIEsoN. 

